Sigma 35mm f1.4....?!!

mrk · 7 Jul 2013 at 19:09

£42~, so if this is the same then it's still going to have been a saving importing when I did... So far!

Neil79 · 7 Jul 2013 at 19:27

Must admit some of the photo's in this thread are not that sharp.

mrk · 7 Jul 2013 at 19:39

What ones and what was the level of sharpness you were expecting from those?

I'll posit a few recent 100% ones tonight from recent shoots. I only shoot at 1.4 really 99% of the time.

ElDude · 7 Jul 2013 at 20:38

mrk said:
The sig was broken? I think you'll find it is not broken

There's just been a white gap where the car was for most of the weekend for me on both my ipad and here. Dunno if that was you or my ISP caching things from an evil DNS

mrk · 7 Jul 2013 at 20:44

ElDude said:
There's just been a white gap where the car was for most of the weekend for me on both my ipad and here. Dunno if that was you or my ISP caching things from an evil DNS

Reload my post a few times, you've been had!

ElDude · 7 Jul 2013 at 21:55

mrk said:
Reload my post a few times, you've been had!

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mrk · 7 Jul 2013 at 22:06

^

As for sharpness of the lens, a shot from yesterday:

(Excuse the thumbed version, it's from Flickr)

Click for 100%. The focus area was the LCD on the D800. I use a non centre AF point for this and slightly recomposed the shot.

ElDude · 7 Jul 2013 at 22:09

I think it's safe to say that's sharp as a tack

mrk · 7 Jul 2013 at 22:39

It will suffice

Neil79 · 7 Jul 2013 at 22:50

mrk said:
^

As for sharpness of the lens, a shot from yesterday:

(Excuse the thumbed version, it's from Flickr)

Click for 100%. The focus area was the LCD on the D800. I use a non centre AF point for this and slightly recomposed the shot.

Now that's what i'm talking about...

gjc10212, Paull11's and Raymonds were not so sharp

JBuk · 7 Jul 2013 at 23:03

My 35 1.4 is tack sharp , infact it blows me away at the level of detail it resolves, I did need to fine tune the autofocus a little but I'm very I impressed and I wish I could get such detail with all my lenses lol

mrk · 7 Jul 2013 at 23:21

This one was shot not too long ago and was using AI servo AF while walking, again with an off centre AF point for the tracking. Focus point was the man's face /somewhere/

Raymond Lin · 7 Jul 2013 at 23:44

Neil79 said:
Now that's what i'm talking about...

gjc10212, Paull11's and Raymonds were not so sharp

I don't have a Sigma

and I am happy about it's sharpness thank you very much

King Damager · 8 Jul 2013 at 00:01

Not so sure about the CA mind! I mean its easily fixable in post, but o.O

kd

mrk · 8 Jul 2013 at 00:02

You're always going to get CA in all lenses at the widest aperture most especially where highlight edges meet shadow/mid tones.

Neil79 · 8 Jul 2013 at 00:08

Raymond Lin said:
I don't have a Sigma

and I am happy about it's sharpness thank you very much

I wouldn't be

But if you're happy that's all that matters

Raymond Lin · 8 Jul 2013 at 00:22

mrk said:
You're always going to get CA in all lenses at the widest aperture most especially where highlight edges meet shadow/mid tones.

Unavoidable especially when shooting into the sun.

I wasn't going to shoot from the other direction, it would've looked rubbish.

So it's either you get a photo with CA or you get a crap one without. It's a no brainer!

gjc10212 · 8 Jul 2013 at 09:27

Neil79 said:
Now that's what i'm talking about...

gjc10212, Paull11's and Raymonds were not so sharp

Paul11 · 8 Jul 2013 at 09:33

is mine really not that sharp ? (straight OOC)

a1ex2001 · 8 Jul 2013 at 10:13

another quality thread turned into a sharpness at 100% debate, all the pics are plenty sharp enough for normal viewing/printing comparing 100% crops is just pointless nit picking.